re: Vader’s Model Desk: Carro Armato M13/40

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What is your opinion of Monogram?

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Revell and Monogram are owned by the same company. I don’t think they make Minogram any longer. I have one Monogram kit, a Dauntless dive bomber kit from the 70s, in my stash that I found on Facebook Marketplace.

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Revell and Monogram were almost the only choices when I was a kid. I was in high school or college when I saw my first Tamiya kit.

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Same. I got started building models when KMart was still around and had a model isle. This was in the late 70s. All the kits were either Monogram, Revell, or AMT. my first build was a Monogram P-40. I have one Monogram kit in my collection I built a few years ago, a TBD Devastator. I bought it off eBay for like $50-$60 bucks. When the kit arrived on the mail it was still wrapped in the original plastic and had ab old KMart price tag for like $4.00. Here’s the finished product…